i would use your brain. i wish i could use some of that. >> it would not help. >> it's coming out of your hands and your body. i noticed, when i did comedy, i was always standing on stage. it's always -- you're existing from one joke to the next. but when i'm playing music, you can look out and see people going -- >> you wrote about that in your memoir, how when you were doing the comedy on the road, at some point, it became very wearing to you. but this -- >> yes. also, you have other people on stage. i mean, i do, when i'm playing music. there's interaction between myself and the band. and it's actually quite enjoyable. when you're doing comedy, you're just alone for months. >> the same thing, i guess, when you're writing novels. you have another novel coming out soon. >> i call it a serious novel, i guess. called "an object of beauty." that's a novel set in the art world in manhattan, from 1993 to 2009. >> do you do all of these at the same time? or do you compartmentalize? >> people say, you do so much a